The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 122

He then called his daughter, and said to her, ‘I am going to the inn; if anybody wants me, loose the dog, and send him to call me.’

Who acts: dog, I, anybody, me · What happens: call, say, go, want, lose, send · To what, where: daughter, thing, inn, me, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, I, anybody, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 inn	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 inn	det
18	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wants	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 wants	mark
21	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 wants	nsubj
22	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wants	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 loose	punct
25	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wants	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dog	det
27	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 loose	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 send	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 send	cc
30	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 loose	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 send	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 call	mark
33	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 send	advcl
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 call	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 wants	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	dog		dog's daughter		then	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	dog not said here		thing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	go	present · progressive	I			the inn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
4	want a condition, not said to happen	present	anybody	me				tree rules
5	lose not said to happen	infinitive	me not said here	the dog				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality
6	send	infinitive	me not said here	dog				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	call	to-infinitive	me not said here		me			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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